tonight we are pleased to be joined by chuck hagel. the combat vet earns two purple hearts.e was a member of the who intelligence committee. he serves of the chairman of the atlantic council. he joins us tonight from washington. good to have you on this program. so much news i want to get to. let me jump in with syria. we told americans to get out. your thoughts on the deteriorating relationship with syria and what is happening inside the country? >> these are very difficult, delicate, and complicated issues. did the united states or any one nation does not have the ability to change or control of events, and i think we saw about over last 12 months in tunisia and egypt as well as libya and bahrain, but what we can do is continue to work with our allies representing the middle east, the arab league, the united nations, working with our very close nato ally and friend, turkey pure against -- turkey. these are interconnected dynamics said do not present an easy way out. the only way to do this is continue to put as much pressure through every control we have to bring this to a

just three republicans, george voinovich, bob bennett and chuck hagel voted against the measure withdent. >>> now enough with the real news. gather around the water cooler to watch stephen colbert and opera meister placido domingo hit high notes on last night's "colbert report." ♪ ♪ >> oh. and speaking of hitting those high notes, it's been just 24 hours since we've played you mitt romney's attempt to quote george costanza from "seinfeld." >> i want to restore america's promise and i'm going to do that -- [ applause ] >> that's good enough. as george costanza would say when they're applauding, stop, right. romney flubbed the quote which was actually said by jerry. no showmanship george. when you hit the high note say good night and walk off. >> all right. that's it for me. i'm gone, everybody. >> what was that? what was that? >> showmanship. george is trying to get out on a high note. >> jason alexander. the actor who famously played george costanza on "seinfeld" responded to romney on twitter. thrilled governor romney enjoys my old character. i enjoyed the character he used to be. i

elect platform just opened up their drafting process and 52 candidates have been drafted, including chuck hagelndoleezza rice, and wait for it, joe scarborough. >> there you go. there you go. >> for what? >> and here you stay. >> my ear. >> thanks for that, mark. now back to jobs. very nice, though. the growth or lack thereof there, steve rattner. both parties are putting their spin on it. what's behind what we're seeing happening here including the slow job growth overall? >> so as you said, we're going to have a jobs number, probably going to show another modest increase in jobs, but let's put a little bit of perspective with a couple of charts. this first one gives you the average over the last seven or eight months of what's been happening. the key point, we had jobs growth of about 137,000 a month, but we were losing, that's private sector jobs. we were losing government jobs at the rate of 24,000 a month. the government has been a drag on all of this. over the four months since then, we've had a bit of an uptick, 172,000 a month in the private sector, fewer lost in the public sector and n